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Negotiation of identities in multilingual contexts
Adrian Blackledge,Aneta Pavlenko +1 more
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New theoretical approaches to the study of identity negotiation in multilingual contexts have been proposed by as discussed by the authors, including the making of an American, negotiation of identities at the turn of the 20th century, Aneta Pavlenko constructions of identity in political discourse in multi-ilingual Britain, Adrian Blackledge negotiating between bourge and racaille - Verlan as youth identity practice in suburban Paris, Meredith Doran (Pennsylvania State University) Black Deaf or Deaf Black? being Black and Deaf in Britain, Melissa James and Bencie Woll (City UniversityAbstract:
New theoretical approaches to the study of negotiation of identities in multilingual contexts "The making of an American" - negotiation of identities at the turn of the 20th century, Aneta Pavlenko constructions of identity in political discourse in multilingual Britain, Adrian Blackledge negotiating between bourge and racaille - Verlan as youth identity practice in suburban Paris, Meredith Doran (Pennsylvania State University) Black Deaf or Deaf Black? being Black and Deaf in Britain, Melissa James and Bencie Woll (City University, London) mothers and mother tongue - perspectives on self-construction by mothers of Pakistani heritage, Jean Mills (University of Birmingham) the politics of identity, representation, and the discourses of self-identification, Frances Giampapa (University of Toronto) Alice doesn't live here anymore - foreign language learning and identity reconstruction, Celeste Kinginger (Pennsylvania State University) intersections of literacy and construction of social identities, Benedicta Egbo (University of Windsor) multilingual writers and the struggle for voice in academic discourse, Suresh Canagarajah (City University of New York) identity and language use - the politics of speaking ESL in schools, Jennifer Miller (University of Queensland) sending mixed messages - language minority education at a Japanese public elementary school, Yasuko Kanno (University of Washington)read more
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Exploring the Identity Negotiation of East Asian Graduate Teaching Assistants: A Case Study of Academic Identity, Social Identity and Teacher Identity.
TL;DR: The authors explored the experience that three East Asian international GTAs encountered at a midwestern teaching and research institution in the US The study exposed the perceptions, difficulties and challenges, and future career choices that constructed the learning, social and teaching experiences of these three international GTA.
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Square-Headed Frogs and World Citizens: Attitudes and Identities of ESL Teacher Candidates in Québec
TL;DR: This article explored the attitudes and identities of future ESL teachers in a 4-year teacher education program in a regional university in Quebec, Canada, and found that participants had contradictory attitudes toward their own linguistic proficiency and accents, the native-speaker model, and conflicting desires of retaining their assumed identities and adopting native speakers identities.
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Discursive construction of social presence and identity positions in an international bilingual collaboration
TL;DR: The authors examined the discursive construction of social presence and identity in a bilingual collaboration between tertiary distance learners of German in New Zealand and Academic English students in Germany, and found that learners developed a rich interactional structure supported through multiple layers of cohesive ties which helped build a productive learning community embedded in social interaction and facilitated by social presence.
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Reconstructing identities in Australia: Iraqi Muslim women's pursuit of cultural, social and economic capital
Seham Shwayli,Melissa Barnes +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that women were largely invested in studying English due to their previous success in learning English in Iraq and their awareness of the cultural capital that accompanies this achievement, revealing the tensions between language and identity construction as these women pursue acceptance and belonging in their new society while attempting not to devalue their Iraqi culture and Arabic language.
Language learning in China: The experience of four learners
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors illustrate the usefulness of accounts of individual learning experience with reference to the language learning experience of four learners in China and make suggestions on how language educators can collect and make use of such learning accounts for pedagogical purposes.
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
TL;DR: Bourdieu as mentioned in this paper develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood.
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Language and Symbolic Power
Pierre Bourdieu,John B. Thompson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the economy of language exchange and its relation to political power is discussed. But the authors focus on the production and reproduction of Legitimate language and do not address its application in the theory of political power.
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Outline of a theory of practice
TL;DR: Pierre Bourdieu develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood, able to transcend the dichotomies which have shaped theoretical thinking about the social world.